[Pydev-users] Remote interpreter

[Fenn B. <fen...@gm...>]

Hey all,

I was wondering if there's a simple way to set up a remote python
interpreter for PyDev? (much like the remote debugger)

This would be particularly useful, for example, when developing on OSX with
your actual application environment on a Linux VM (quite a common practice).

The main driver for this is having useful autocomplete/syntax debugging for
external modules - certain binary python modules are notoriously difficult
to get working on OSX and involve a lot of yak-shaving, which is
particularly cumbersome when all you're just trying to remove many erroneous
red import errors in PyDev.

I've had a look at pycompletion.py and pycompletionserver.py and they look
capable of handling a remote server aside from having suitably configurable
parameters (like host, path translation, etc).

Thoughts?

  Fenn.